The Kansas City Chiefs are back in St. Joseph, Missouri, following Week 1 of the preseason.

Fans were excited to get their first glimpse of new Chiefs cornerback Morris Claiborne at training camp. He was in practice for the first time today, wearing the No. 20 jersey on the defensive side of the ball. That jersey is also worn by Tremon Smith on the offense.

Claiborne only practiced in a limited capacity. He was not a participant in full 11-on-11 team drills and only worked in individual and 7-on-7 drills. This isn’t a big surprise, as today was his first official day in the building. The plan for the Chiefs, according to Andy Reid, seems to be slowly integrating Claiborne into things.

“We’ve got to ease him into this thing,” Reid said. “He hasn’t played any in the offseason, and he’s coming off an injury, right? We’re just going to ease him in on this thing and see how he does, and get a feel on where he’s at. But he came out and worked, and I thought it was good work. But it’s going to take him a couple of days to probably get his legs and that. We’ll see, we’ll see how he does.”

Claiborne missed the finale of the 2018 season as a member of the Jets with a shoulder injury. It appears to be significant enough that the Chiefs are taking precautions. They also have the difficult task of finding the balance between getting Claiborne ready and knowing that he won’t be able to play until Week 5 of the regular season because of four-game suspension. Reid expects to get him some work with the starting unit at some point.

“We’ll get him in,” Reid said. “We just don’t want any setbacks. We don’t want any pulls, we kind of want to give him a chance to get in and get it going. Then we’ll get him in and let him work a little bit.”

As for Claiborne’s debut with the Chiefs, we probably won’t get a chance to see him during preseason Week 2 against the Steelers, according to Reid.

“I wouldn’t imagine that no,” Reid said. “We’ve got to give him a fair shot here and let him get ready.”

Despite the fact that it will take some time to integrate him, the decision to bring in Claiborne was a simple, yet researched one for Reid and Brett Veach.

“He’s played in this league for a few years here now and he’s a good, solid player,” Reid said. “You can’t have enough of those guys, especially at that position. And we just get him into the mix and see how he does. I’ve competed against him and I thought he was a good player and Brett (Veach) studied him like crazy. (Veach) felt good about him. So we went with it.”